A persuasive piece: marketing your favorite place in the world- Lesson Plan

Objective: The learner will influence the attitudes of a specific audience by using research skills to create a product to highlight a city in one of the 30 states previously studied.
Task Analysis: Big 6 (Web literacy skills) or other Research Model, Persuasive Writing, Graphic Organizers Interview skills, Questioning strategies

Materials: computers, flip cameras, digital cameras, paper, pencils, internet connectivity

Set: Show students “samples of products” highlighting various cities, and the information that you are looking for (Animoto, glogster, photostory, various web 2.0 tools,travel websites & commercials)

Purpose: For students to utilize web 2.0 tools, research tools, and problem solving to create a persuasive piece.

Timeline:
To get students motivated brainstorm as a group some places they could visit.
Students are to research places and collect information that answers the following thoughts:
Why would you go there?
  • Specifically tell places of interests you find.
  • Accommodations (places to stay), transportation
  • Climate
  • Historical Interest
  • Geographical interest
Using technology tools of your choice, share your knowledge with your classmates, pubish on web (wiki site), or set up a skype session with school outside of your state.
The students may use but are not limited to:

Students create and share their persuasive presentations.

Rubric For Assessment (Use Recipe 4 learning)
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